Sketch of the day is to celebrate the Hindu festival of Thaipusam. Excuse all my spelling mistakes on this sketch. It was a hungover day…..

Thaipusam is a hindu festival celebrated on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai when the star Pusam is at it’s highest point. The festival commemorates the ocassion when the Goddess of Love Parvati gave Lord Murugam, god of war, a divine Vel Spear to vanquish the evil demon Soorapadman.

The Hindu believers on this day carry offerings called Kavadi in different forms. Some women carry big Pots of milk on top of their heads, but mostly the men spear themselves all over their body and hook offerings on their body such as coconuts, some pull charriots, walk on sharp needle shoes. It is an amazing sight to see and intensely spiritual. The pilgrimage starts from one temple to another on top of a small hill.

The celebrations in Penang is the largest outside of India. If you ever travel here, you have to go and experience this.

True. It was a full moon. Which I looked at from my terrace. I find it amazing that other people thousands and thousands of miles away can look at the same moon. Actually it is the only object we (like you and I or distant friends) can look at at almost the same time. Time zone allowing. No other object in the world. ‘xcept for the Sun of course, but it’s different and you can’t look directly at it. Hmmm.
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